Safety Engineer in Amesbury

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Safety Engineer at our Boscombe Down site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role: As a Safety Engineer, you will be supporting the Allocated Design Team and surrounding SMEs where the Safety Engineer’s main role will be aiding in the development and delivery of the Safety Case that supports the Design Certification or Safety of Flight declaration (Permit to Fly).

Day-to-day, you’ll have specific safety activities including supporting project bid activities, leading hazard identification activities, and collating safety evidence to form safety artefacts for a wide range of Aircraft Modification, commercial equipment and test instrumentation integration (for aviation and other applications), and ground support equipment tasks. Your responsibilities will include:

• Technically lead (with support) project safety activities including hazard identification, risk analysis and management.
• Prepare safety and risk management documentation required to support certification, or safety of flight (Permit to Fly (PtF)) activities.
• Support generation of the safety and risk management philosophy to meet customer, technical, environmental, operational, safety and regulatory requirements.
• Maintenance of a hazards and controls register.
• Supporting Part 21J Design, Part 21G Production, Part 145’s Maintenance and aircraft operators (internal to QinetiQ and customer/supplier organisations) with interfacing Safety Management Systems (SMS).
• Review and test adequacy of evidence supplied to support Safety Assessments, including supplier and customer generated evidence.

Essential experience of the Safety Engineer:

• Candidate will have specialist safety experience, ideally including the support and generation of safety arguments supporting aviation designs or products.
• Technical report writing, specifically for the generation of Safety Case reporting and advice.
• Generation and maintenance of project Hazard Logs.
• Has a knowledge and understanding of Regulatory and Governance of the design process.
• Able to generate compliance arguments and documentation which meet the requirements of the project regulatory framework (CAA, MAA, HSE).

Essential qualifications for the Safety Engineer:

• Masters’ Degree in Safety or Aviation, or related discipline/equivalent (HNC/HND/level of experience to deem an equivalent level of knowledge).
• Engineering fundamentals - Formal training/experience in Engineering subjects such as materials, stress awareness, mechanism designs, Design principles, electrical awareness.

This role is 37 hours per week based at MoD Boscombe Down. Flexibility in start times, end times and flexible working will be considered in accordance with QinetiQ corporate policy.

Boscombe Down MOD Boscombe Down is a unique operational site featuring the longest military runway in the UK. Primarily focusing on providing testing, evaluation and support services for aviation and aerospace systems. Renowned for its extensive flight testing capabilities the site plays a vital role in the UK’s aviation defence contributing to the development, testing and airworthiness of military aircraft enhancing operational readiness and effectiveness.

Why Join QinetiQ? As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Our Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community.

Our Recruitment Process: We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.